Legacy of Leaders: College of Natural Sciences

In honor of Founders Week, an outstanding student and alum from each college are rewarded for their success, excellence and leadership. The blog will feature a different college each day during Founders Week, April 4–13, 2014.

Today’s featured College of Natural Sciences honorees show that when you are following your passion, nearly anything is possible.

Alumnus: Craig Lindsley

Since his graduation from Chico State in chemistry in 1992, Craig Lindsley has gone on to hold 35 patents, become a renowned professor and researcher, and publish more than 300 manuscripts.

Lindsley received his PhD at UC Santa Cruz and did his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University.

Before becoming a professor of pharmacology and chemistry at Vanderbilt in 2006, Lindsley worked at Eli Lilly & Co. and Merck & Co. pioneering research on allosteric modulation.

Lindsley is now director of Medicinal Chemistry for the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery.

He is also the founding editor-in-chief of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, a peer-reviewed scientific journal since 2010.

Lindsley has received numerous awards including

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)-Astellas Award